On April 30 the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issues the Notice on Several Issues Concerning the Enterprise Income Tax Treatment of Corporate Restructuring (hereafter referred to as “Notice”) , which take effect from Jan 1 2009. Corporate restructuring in the Notice is classified to six catalogues, namely change of legal…

On April 23 the Supreme Court promulgated the Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law to the Trial of Cases of Civil Disputes over the Protection of Well-known Trademarks (hereafter referred to as “Interpretation”). The Interpretation aims at preventing the abuse of the well-known trademarks system. The Interpretation clarifies the case in which…